DefDog: Counter-IED Network Analysis – Works for Law Enforcement, Ignored by US Military

When we worked on the Manhunting Project for SOCOM, the US Marshall’s Service said that fugitive hunting was all about network analysis. The IC doesn’t understand network analysis as the bean counters push for numbers….they focus on low hanging fruit and as a result there is always some guy out there ready to step up …

Richard Stallman: Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software 1.1

ROBERT STEELE:  I thought F/OSS had merged as a meme.  Now I understand you to mean that while both have practical similarities in outcomes, the underlying ethics are completely different. RICHARD STALLMAN: Nothing has changed.  The free software movement remains what it has always been since 1983: an ethical and political campaign for freedom for …

Event: AM 31 Mar Washington Panel on Complexity & Reflexivity, Washington Academy of Sciences + Meta-RECAP

Complexity and Reflexivity Papers presented at the Washington Academy of Sciences Washington, DC, March 31-April 1, 2012 UPDATED 24 Feb to post all links Conceptions of Complexity and Implications for Economics Stuart Umpleby, The George Washington University, Washington, DC Experiments in Reflexive Inquiry Kent Myers, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton Conceptual Difficulties and Pragmatic Responses to …

Mini-Me: When All Else Fails, Try Crowd-Sourcing

U.S. Government Turns to Crowdsourcing for Intelligence  National Defense, December 2011 By Dan Parsons The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community spend billions of dollars each year trying, with mild success at best, to predict the future. They organize elaborate wargames, develop computer algorithms to digest information and rely on old-fashioned aggregation of professional opinion. Past …

Cynthia McKinney: The Truth on Libya–Another War of Lies

LIBYA AND THE BIG LIE: USING HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS TO LAUNCH WARS Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The war against Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi. The claim in its …

John Robb: Hollow States & Crisis of Capitalism

Tuesday, 06 September 2011 HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Had fun with this post.  Working on getting the thinking on this right.  Tough to do. ________________________ Hollow, bankrupt states and crisis of capitalism is not a “dystopian future” if it is actually happening now. With almost hourly updates. I coined the term, “hollow …

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